I still hold the proposition that Tunku Abdul Rahman saw the "Buaya" earlier than had been conventionally assumed. The buaya colony have almost overpopulated Malaysia. It is time to do some culling and extend the season. But just watch it!
But the single most important person responsible for the horror is probably the former prime minister Mahathir Mohamed. He did not merely change the perception of the Malay. He altered the Malay sense of self-worth when he, in the book The Malay Dilemma, interpreted the serenity and composure as a regressive Malay trait to be done away with rather than as a hardy and enduring stepping stone towards Malay cultural and material progress, in ways like the Thais do.
It has been said that when a man stops believing in something, and in himself, he does not believe in nothing; he believes in anything. This outcome unfolds today in Malay religious, political and cultural life and made most vivid by the display of a stained mattress during the sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim: the profane becomes legal.
Before and at the time of the first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and perhaps even into the third, Tun Hussein Onn, Islam was subjected to the Malay value system: composure, decorum, rituals, public conduct and so on. Islam, as the Constitution defines it, may be a constituent of the Malay identity but does not replace it. -[SHUZHENG, CPI]
It has been said that when a man stops believing in something, and in himself, he does not believe in nothing; he believes in anything. This outcome unfolds today in Malay religious, political and cultural life and made most vivid by the display of a stained mattress during the sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim: the profane becomes legal.
Before and at the time of the first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and perhaps even into the third, Tun Hussein Onn, Islam was subjected to the Malay value system: composure, decorum, rituals, public conduct and so on. Islam, as the Constitution defines it, may be a constituent of the Malay identity but does not replace it. -[SHUZHENG, CPI]
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